Word: feds
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...would they do it? The civil and criminal actions suggest one answer: $32 million in cash and stock awarded to Clifford and Altman in a sweetheart transaction engineered by Abedi and concealed by the two from the Fed and even their own board of directors. The prosecutors allege the deal was a bribe, as was part of the $17 million their law firm charged as legal counsel for B.C.C.I. and First American...
...royal fury in Saudi Arabia is fed by more than just Arab-Jewish enmity and the Saudis' abhorrence of publicity. B.C.C.I. flourished because it could provide cover for deals between nominal enemies, especially in the arms trade. The demand for these services was particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning...
This crime, like those before it, was ringingly denounced by politicians, law-enforcement officials, trade unions and the media. But few doubted the Mafia would strike again at will, without fear of retaliation. The criminals' arrogance is fed by the feckless response that greets each new barbarism. Protesting Borsellino's death, unions staged a nationwide 10-min. work stoppage. Jailed Mafia bosses were clapped into a remote island prison, denied visitors and the use of phones from which they run their businesses. At the Mass for Borsellino's bodyguards, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Prime Minister Amato...
...should have known not only that Ross Perot, for all his verbal machismo, has always walked away from fights once they got too tough; that he seemed to have delusions of grandeur, fed by our curious habit of treating successful entrepreneurs as geniuses; that in politics he was both amazingly naive and obnoxiously arrogant; that he promised to fix everything without spelling out what he would...
...deadline for getting real on the issues). Clinton still won't seriously tackle the spiraling cost of entitlement programs, and his health-care reforms, which he identifies as the "key to everything," require further work. But as his proposals are elaborated, they could resonate with an electorate "fed up with failure." And when the debates come this fall -- the events he is counting on for victory, since all else in the campaign is designed merely to keep him close in the polls -- Clinton alone may be able to offer a coherent, optimistic future for a nation apoplectic about decline...